Sunday, April 29, 2012

As California Collapses, Obama Follows Its Lead

California’s slow-motion tragedy could end up as a national one, warns Joel Kotkin.

Barack Obama learned the rough sport of politics in Chicago, but his domestic policies have been shaped by California’s progressive creed. As the Golden State crumbles, its troubles point to those America may confront in a second Obama term.
From his first days in office, the president has held up California as a model state. In 2009, he praised its green-tinged energy policies as a blueprint for the nation. He staffed his administration with Californians like Energy Secretary Steve Chu—an open advocate of high energy prices who’s lavished government funding on “green” dodos like solar-panel maker Solyndra, and luxury electric carmaker Fisker—and Commerce Secretary John Bryson, who thrived as CEO of a regulated utility which raised energy costs for millions of consumers, sometimes to finance “green” ideals.
Obama regularly asserts that green jobs will play a crucial role in the future of the American economy, but California, a trend-setter in the field, has yet to reap such benefits. Green jobs, broadly defined, make up only about 2 percent of jobs in the state—about the same proportion as in Texas. In Silicon Valley, the number of green jobs actually declined between 2003 and 2010. Meanwhile, California’s unemployment rate of 10.9 percent is the nation’s third highest, behind only Nevada and Rhode Island.
When Governor Jerry Brown predicted a half-million green jobs by the end of the decade, even The New York Times deemed it “a pipe dream.”

Obama’s push to nationalize many of California’s economy-stifling green policies has been slowed down, first by the Republican resurgence in 2010 and then by his reelection considerations. But California’s politicians, living in what’s become essentially a one-party state, have doubled down on green orthodoxy. As the president at least tries to cover his flank by claiming to support an “all-in” energy policy, California has simply refused to exploit much of its massive oil and gas resources.
Does this matter? Well, Texas has created 200,000 oil and gas jobs over the past decade; California has barely added 20,000. continue here

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.-CS Lewis

"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest."- Mahatma Gandhi

"If you have no capacity for violence then you are a healthy productive citizen: a sheep. If you have a capacity for violence and no empathy for your fellow citizens, then you have defined an aggressive sociopath–a wolf. But what if you have a capacity for violence, and a deep love for your fellow citizens? Then you are a sheepdog, a warrior, someone who is walking the hero’s path. Someone who can walk into the heart of darkness, into the universal human phobia, and walk out unscathed."-The Bulletproof Mind

"Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber."

“Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.” Aaron Levenstein

"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." 1984

“Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.” - Lenin

"You must remember that of all the arts, for us, the most important is cinema.” - Lenin

“Movie Stars. Is there anything they DON’T know?”- Homer Simpson

"Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?" By 2050 earlier, probably -- all real knowledge of Oldspeak will have disappeared. The whole literature of the past will have been destroyed. Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Byron -- they'll exist only in Newspeak versions, not merely changed into something different, but actually changed into something contradictory of what they used to be. Even the literature of the Party will change. Even the slogans will change. How could you have a slogan like "freedom is slavery" when the concept of freedom has been abolished? The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking -- not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.' Orwell-1984

"Diversity Is Our Strength", a modern newspeak slogan issued on posters in government offices nationally, in our own modern (post 60s) America. WM

"The constitution was designed as an unbreakable chain to bind government and keep the people free, but modern liberalism has created formulas to turn those chains into a creeping vine that clawingly seeks the people and enslaves them while loosing and releasing its grip on the government." WM

"It isn't what Americans don't know that is the problem, it is the false information that they are taught, that attacks our fabric as a nation and our future as a people."- WM

“Tolerance is the last virtue of a depraved society. When an immoral society has blatantly and proudly violated all the commandments, it insists upon one last virtue, tolerance for its immorality. It will not tolerate condemnation of its perversions. It creates a whole new world in which only the intolerant critic of intolerable evil is evil.” Hutton Gibson

"Duty ... Honor ... Country... Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying points: to build courage when courage seems to fail; to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith; to create hope when hope becomes forlorn." Douglas MacArthur

For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Matthew 16:26

“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” John 15:13

"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."- G. Orwell

Switzerland is armed to the teeth.

Romney can not talk about being governor because he was a failure.Romney can not talk about the Olympics because he took $600mil taxpayers money to fix it.He can’t talk about his belief in mormonISM because it is anti-Christian.He could talk about his time at Bain, whether he was successful is your point of view.All he can really do is say “I am not Obama and Obama sucks”.

What?

America's most popular Governor, Sarah Palin

Our first indian Governor, Republican-Piyush jindal

"We don't intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all."- Ronald Reagan

RONALD REAGAN QUOTES

Ronald Reagan's Thoughts in quotes

"Man is not free unless government is limited."

"Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty."

“The cultural environment for a human holocaust is present whenever any society can be misled into defining individuals as less than human and therefore devoid of value and respect.”

"Abraham Lincoln recognized that we could not survive as a free land when some men could decide that others were not fit to be free and should therefore be slaves. Likewise, we cannot survive as a free nation when some men decide that others are not fit to live and should be abandoned to abortion or infanticide."

"I notice that all those people who favor abortion have already been born."

"We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added."

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same."

"Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence."

"Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged."

"Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves."

"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it."

"The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much."

"Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15."

"I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'."

"Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"

"Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure."

"They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong."

"Don't be afraid to see what you see." Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine in 1961 !

Thank you President Reagan

Obama “I don't want them punished with a baby.”

Obama's civilian "National Security Force"

Obama's ignorance is profound, his own birth date was 1961 (the Selma march was in 1965!)

Obama bowing to Japanese emperor, over and over

president obama- our brave "navy corpseman"!??

Obama visits all 57 to 60 states (who knows?)

Chris Matthews will use his show to serve Obama

biden 1929 FDR depression "Television" and 1929 President FDR?

Palin: You can see Russia from land in Alaska, which is correct of course

Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah

Peter Rabbit: Tank Killer

The Shadowlands: Ghosts & Hauntings

Zombie response team

THE BOOK OF WERE-WOLVES

White Zombie - Bela Lugosi - 1932

The Southerner

When I asked him what he meant, he said, For them, one and one and one and one don't make four.What do they make? I said, expecting five or three.Just one and one and one and one, he said.

--Margaret Atwood, A Handmaid’s Tale

Rocky Mountain High

Van Gogh

FREEDOM

The philosopher Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for his supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who said, “If you would learn to be more subservient to the king, you would not have to live on lentils.” Diogenes replied, “Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to cultivate the king.”

I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content. I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need. I can do all things through him who strengthens me (Philippians 4:11-13).